Athletes who wish to resume high-level activities after an injury to the anterior cruciate
ligament (ACL) are often advised to undergo surgical reconstruction. Nevertheless, ACL …

While the experience of flow is often described in attentional terms—focused concentration
or task absorption—specific cognitive mechanisms have received limited interest. We …

An external focus of attention has been shown to result in superior motor performance
compared to an internal focus of attention. This study investigated whether this is due to …

Background The operating room environment is replete with stressors and distractions that
increase the attention demands of what are already complex psychomotor procedures …

Much of the way in which humans respond and adapt to the environment occurs implicitly,
without conscious awareness. Yet, motor skills in sport, and any number of the learned skills …

Background Implicit motor learning is characterized by low dependence on working memory
and stable performance despite stress, fatigue, or multi-tasking. However, current paradigms …

Objectives This experiment examined whether electroencephalographic (EEG)-based
neurofeedback could be used to train recreational golfers to regulate their brain activity …

BACKGROUND: Previous research has demonstrated that trainees can be taught (via
explicit verbal instruction) to adopt the gaze strategies of expert laparoscopic surgeons. The …

Objective To investigate the utility of cognitive assessment during robot‐assisted surgery
(RAS) to define skills in terms of cognitive engagement, mental workload, and mental state; …

Background Prosthetic hands impose a high cognitive burden on the user that often results
in fatigue, frustration and prosthesis rejection. However, efforts to directly measure this …